1992 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992.

List of years in music (Table) … 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 • 1990 • 1991 – 1992 – 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 … Related time period or subjects … 1989 • 1990 • 1991 – 1992 – 1993 • 1994 • 1995 … … 1960s • 1970s • 1980s – 1990s – 2000s • 2010s • 2020s … … 19th century – 20th century – 21st century … Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science more Contents 1 Events 1.1 January-February 1.2 March-April 1.3 May-June 1.4 July-August 1.5 September-October 1.6 November-December 2 Bands formed 3 Bands disbanded 4 Bands Reformed 5 Albums released 5.1 January 5.2 February 5.3 March 5.4 April 5.5 May 5.6 June 5.7 July 5.8 August 5.9 September 5.10 October 5.11 November 5.12 December 5.13 Release Date Unknown 6 Biggest hit singles 7 Top hits on record 8 Classical music 9 Opera 10 Musical theater 11 Musical films 12 Soundtracks 13 Births 14 Deaths 15 Most Critically Acclaimed Songs of 1992 16 Awards 17 See also 18 References //

Events This section is missing citations or needs footnotes. Please help add inline citations to guard against copyright violations and factual inaccuracies. (April 2008) January-February January 11 Nirvana's Nevermind album goes to #1 in the US Billboard 200 chart, establishing the widespread popularity of the Grunge movement of the 1990s.1 Paul Simon is the first major artist to tour South Africa after the end of the United Nations cultural boycott.2 January 16 - Mick Jagger attends the Hollywood premiere of his new movie, Freejack, at Mann's Chinese Theatre.citation needed February 18 - Vince Neil leaves Mötley Crüe after 11 years as the band's lead singer, to spend more time on his career as a racing car driver.3 February 24 Nirvana's Kurt Cobain marries Hole's Courtney Love. The U.S. Postal Service unveils two potential designs for its proposed Elvis Presley postage stamp for fans to vote on. One design is of a young, 1950s Elvis, and the other is of a much older, 1970s Elvis. The young Elvis wins the vote, and the stamp is issued the following January.citation needed March-April March 10 - Prince wins the lifetime achievement award during the Soul Train Awards.citation needed March 14 - Farm Aid Five takes place in Irving, Texas, USA, hosted by Willie Nelson. Artists performing at the event include John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Paul Simon. Approximately 40,000 people attend the event.citation needed March 24 - A Chicago, Illinois, USA judge approves cash rebates of up to US$3 to anyone proving they bought Milli-Vanilli recordings prior to when the lip synching scandal began on November 27, 1990.citation needed April 1 - Billy Idol, on trial for punching a woman in the face, pleads no contest. Idol is fined and ordered to make public service announcements against alcohol and drug abuse.citation needed April 24 - David Bowie marries fashion model Iman.citation needed April 30 - In Los Angeles, California, USA, Madonna's bustier is stolen from a display in Frederick's of Hollywood. A US$1,000 reward is offered for its return.citation needed May-June May - The first Europäisches Jugendchorfestival,(EJCF) (European Festival of Youth Choirs) is held in Basel, Switzerland. It is decided to make it a triennial event. May 7 - John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers leaves the band prior to the publication of a Rolling Stone magazine cover featuring them; he has to be digitally edited out of the photo.4 Frusciante returned to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1998.citation needed June 27 - Michael Jackson starts the Dangerous World tour, supporting his Dangerous album in Munich,Germany. June - "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses enters the world record when it becomes the longest single, at 8 minutes, 57 seconds, to reach the US Top 20. The single's video has a budget of over US$1.5 million, becoming the most expensive at the time.citation needed July-August July - The Budafest Summer Opera and Ballet Festival is launched in Budapest, Hungary.citation needed July 4 - Mark Heard suffers a heart attack while performing at the Cornerstone Festival in Illinois, USA. Heard goes to hospital immediately after finishing his set, but dies two weeks after being discharged in August. August Rozalla becomes the first artist from Zimbabwe to chart on the US Billboard magazine chart.citation needed Former Beatle, George Harrison, tells Billboard magazine that he recently discovered that he was born on February 24, and not February 25 as he had thought for most of his life.citation needed Haitian military authorities ban the playing of RAM's single "Fèy"; first performed at the Port-au-Prince Carnival in February, the song was widely interpreted as an anthem of support for exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.citation needed August 27 - John Lennon's original handwritten lyrics to "A Day in the Life" are auctioned and sold for US$87,000.citation needed September-October October 3 - Sinéad O'Connor stirs up controversy when she rips up a picture of the Pope on the US television show, Saturday Night Live.citation needed October 20- Madonna releases her fifth studio album Erotica. October 31 - "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men posts its 12th consecutive week at #1 in the US charts, ending a 36-year record previously held by Elvis Presley. Boyz II Men's record was broken on March 6, 1993 by Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You".citation needed November-December November 9 - Australian-born singer Kylie Minogue ends her working relationship with UK songwriters and record producers Stock Aitken Waterman and the record label PWL. November 15 - Megan Jasper of Sub Pop creates the grunge speak hoax, tricking The New York Times into printing an article on a supposed slang used in the grunge scene in Seattle, USA.citation needed December 15 - Dr. Dre releases The Chronic, regarded by critics and fans as a classic of hip hop. Bands formed See Musical groups established in 1992 Bands disbanded ABC The Alarm Britny Fox Dark Angel (reform 2002) Echo & the Bunnymen (reform 1997) EPMD (reform 1997 and 2002) Eric B. & Rakim Europe (reform 1999 and 2003) Exodus (reform 1997 and 2002) The Feelies Fine Young Cannibals (reform 1996) Gondwanaland Happy Mondays (reform 1999 and 2004) Bruce Hornsby & The Range J.J. Fad (reform 2009) Johnny Hates Jazz Luv' (reform 1993 and 2005) Naked Raygun (reform 2009) Noiseworks The Nymphs Outlaw Posse Public Image Ltd. (reform 2009) The Psychedelic Furs (reform 2000) Ratt Slade The Sugarcubes (brief reunion 2006) Talking Heads Tin Machine Two Nice Girls Bands Reformed The Tubes April Wine Madness Albums released Contents: Top • January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December January Day Album Artist Notes 1 Congregation The Afghan Whigs - 14 Rush soundtrack Eric Clapton - At the Ryman Emmylou Harris Live 17 Kerplunk Green Day - 27 Pleasure Death Therapy? EP ? Rancid Rancid EP February Day Album Artist Notes 5 Hormoaning Nirvana EP; Australia and Japan only 7 More Noise and Other Disturbances The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - 10 Generation Terrorists Manic Street Preachers - 11 Saturday Morning with Riders Riders in the Sky - 12 Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Aphex Twin - A Picture of Nectar Phish - 18 Hormonally Yours Shakespear's Sister - Wayne's World soundtrack Various Artists - 20 Gotthard Gotthard - 24 Divine Madness Madness - 25 Little Earthquakes Tori Amos US Vulgar Display of Power Pantera - The End of Silence Rollins Band - Ooooooohhh.... On the TLC Tip TLC - F.U. Don't Take It Personal Fu-Schnickens - 28 Onobox Yoko Ono Box Set March Day Album Artist Notes 1 Ocean Colour Scene Ocean Colour Scene - 3 Hypocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Up Right Said Fred - 9 Doppelgänger Curve - 10 Let Me Come Over Buffalo Tom - Priest=Aura The Church - King's X King's X - Baby I'm Yours Maureen McGovern Covers album Opiate Tool EP Dare to Dream Yanni - 12 Generator Bad Religion - 17 Ingénue k.d. lang - No Doubt No Doubt - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 White Zombie - 21 Sap Alice in Chains EP High Stakes & Dangerous Men UFO - 23 Code: Selfish The Fall - Honey's Dead The Jesus and Mary Chain - 24 Apollo 18 They Might Be Giants - 28 Funky Divas En Vogue - 31 Body Count Body Count - Adrenalize Def Leppard - Celine Dion Celine Dion North America Time To Burn Giant - America Must Be Destroyed GWAR - Totally Krossed Out Kriss Kross - Fire and Ice Yngwie Malmsteen - Human Touch Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town Bruce Springsteen - Eleven Kinds of Loneliness Tanita Tikaram - ? The Friday Rock Show Sessions Hawkwind Live April Day Album Artist Notes 7 The Singer Diamanda Galás - Dead Serious Das EFX - 14 The Woman I Am Chaka Khan - Bricks Are Heavy L7 - This Is My Life Carly Simon - Off the Deep End "Weird Al" Yankovic - Greatest Hits ZZ Top Greatest Hits 20 Slanted and Enchanted Pavement - 21 Check Your Head Beastie Boys - Wish The Cure - Tongues and Tails Sophie B. Hawkins Debut The End Complete Obituary - Hotwired The Soup Dragons - 28 Diva Annie Lennox - 30 Night of the Stormrider Iced Earth - ? I Was Warned Robert Cray - May Day Album Artist Notes 1 The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History The Vaselines Compilation 5 Intoxifornication Gregg Alexander - Daily Operation Gang Starr - Scream in Blue Midnight Oil Live 12 The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion The Black Crowes - Henry's Dream Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Fear of the Dark Iron Maiden - 15 The Ritual Testament - 17 Never Enough Melissa Etheridge - 19 Some Gave All Billy Ray Cyrus - Revenge Kiss - 22 Lazer Guided Melodies Spiritualized - 24 Camera Camera Nazia and Zoheb - 25 The Brother with Two Tongues Mellow Man Ace - 26 Kiko Los Lobos - Peng! Stereolab - ? Hawklords Live Hawklords Live June Day Album Artist Notes 2 MTV Unplugged Mariah Carey Live EP It's a Shame about Ray The Lemonheads - 8 Angel Dust Faith No More - The Crimson Idol W.A.S.P. - 9 Change Everything Del Amitri - Legion Deicide - Mecca and the Soul Brother Pete Rock & CL Smooth - 16 Khaled Khaled - Beat the Boots II Frank Zappa Live Box Set 22 Dehumanizer Black Sabbath UK Don't Sweat the Technique Eric B. & Rakim - 23 Tools of the Trade Carcass - The One Elton John - Utopia Banished Napalm Death - Get in Touch with Yourself Swing Out Sister UK 27 Black Moon Emerson, Lake & Palmer - 28 Last Rights Skinny Puppy - 29 Somewhere Far Beyond Blind Guardian - F.N.G. Suicidal Tendencies Compilation 30 Soft Bomb The Chills - Dry PJ Harvey - Blues for the Red Sun Kyuss - Come On Come On Mary Chapin Carpenter - Kizz My Black Azz MC Ren EP, Debut The Art of Rebellion Suicidal Tendencies - July Day Album Artist Notes 7 Images and Words Dream Theater - Carry On Kansas compilation 10 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 Frank Zappa 2 discs; Live 14 Countdown to Extinction Megadeth - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs Ministry - 21 House of Pain House of Pain - Dirty Sonic Youth - 27 Peppermint Sloan EP Your Arsenal Morrissey - 28 Gordon Barenaked Ladies - What's the 411? Mary J. Blige Debut Promised Land Promised Land - ? California Brainstorm Hawkwind Live August Day Album Artist Notes 3 Welcome to Wherever You Are INXS - 4 New Miserable Experience Gin Blossoms 4 Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964-1976 Donovan Box Set 5 Hit to Death in the Future Head The Flaming Lips - 11 Don't Tread Damn Yankees - Jackyl Jackyl - 14 March ör Die Motörhead - 17 Take That and Party Take That - 18 Unplugged Eric Clapton Live Babe Rainbow The House of Love - Lunapark Luna - Mind Fruit Opus III - T-R-O-U-B-L-E Travis Tritt - 25 Beyond the Season Garth Brooks Christmas album Bobby Bobby Brown - Start the Car Jude Cole - Soul of a New Machine Fear Factory Debut. Dog Eat Dog Warrant - 28 Scrolls of the Megilloth Mortification - Tourism Roxette - 31 Tubular Bells II Mike Oldfield - September

George Strait Pure Country Soundtrack Sold Six Million Copies Released September 15, 1992

Day Album Artist Notes 1 Down on Sunset Thomas Anders - Amused to Death Roger Waters - Now That's What I Call Music! 22 Various Artists Compilation 2 Hold Me Zard - 4 Copper Blue Sugar - 8 Kingdom of Desire Toto - America's Least Wanted Ugly Kid Joe - Bone Machine Tom Waits - 14 A Little Light Music Jethro Tull Live 15 Refugee Bad4Good - Dos Gerardo - Hollywood Town Hall The Jayhawks - You Gotta Believe Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - The Best of White Lion White Lion Greatest Hits 17 Money KMFDM - 21 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits ABBA Greatest Hits Sweet Pizzicato Five Pizzicato Five - 22 Blind Melon Blind Melon - The Chase Garth Brooks - Tomb of the Mutilated Cannibal Corpse - III Sides to Every Story Extreme - Yes Please! Happy Mondays - On Our Worst Behavior Immature - Broken Nine Inch Nails EP Whut? Thee Album Redman - B-Side Ourselves Skid Row Covers EP Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop Diamond D - 28 Back to the Light Brian May UK Experience The Prodigy Released in US October 20 29 Dirt Alice in Chains - Junkanoo Baha Men - Timeless: The Classics Michael Bolton Covers album Us Peter Gabriel - The Triumph of Steel Manowar Europe Not Ashamed Newsboys - Core Stone Temple Pilots - ? Here Comes Trouble Bad Company - Machine + Soul Gary Numan - October Day Album Artist Notes 1 Smeared Sloan Canada Fully Completely The Tragically Hip Canada 5 Twice Upon a Time: The Singles Siouxsie and the Banshees Compilation 6 Play Me Backwards Joan Baez - Home for Christmas Amy Grant - The Road Behind GWAR EP Automatic for the People R.E.M. - Just Look Around Sick of It All - Grave Dancers Union Soul Asylum - 10 Liar The Jesus Lizard - 13 Piece of Cake Mudhoney - Love Symbol Prince - 16 Stamina Daddy Buju Banton Debut Iginition The Offspring - 18 Carnival of Carnage Insane Clown Posse - 19 Jehovahkill Julian Cope UK; released in US Dec. 8 Main Offender Keith Richards - 20 Breathless Kenny G - Erotica Madonna - King of Hearts Roy Orbison - 23 You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 Frank Zappa 2 discs; Live 27 Live AC/DC Live Homebrew Neneh Cherry - Playground Psychotics Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - It's About Time SWV - 30 The Great Deceiver King Crimson Live Box Set rec. 1973-'74 November Day Album Artist Notes 2 Madstock! Madness Live God's Great Banana Skin Chris Rea UK Nurse Therapy? - 3 Keep the Faith Bon Jovi - Good as I Been to You Bob Dylan - Are You Normal? Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine Debut The Skills Dat Pay Da Bills Positive K - 8 The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album Whitney Houston et al. - 9 The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts Genesis Live 10 Urban Discipline Biohazard - The Complete Collection and Then Some... Barry Manilow Compilation 11 Back in Denim Denim - Love Deluxe Sade UK 15 Pure Guava Ween - 17 The Predator Ice Cube - 19 I've Suffered a Head Injury The Verve Pipe EP 24 The Future Leonard Cohen - Pop! - the First 20 Hits Erasure Greatest Hits Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde The Pharcyde - Shine On Pink Floyd Box Set Homebelly Groove...Live Spin Doctors Live ? Free at Last dc Talk - Now That's What I Call Music! 23 Various Artists Compilation December Day Album Artist Notes 7 Fixed (EP) Nine Inch Nails Remix EP 14 Incesticide Nirvana Rarities and unreleased material 15 The Chronic Dr. Dre Solo Debut ? Alejandro Fernández Alejandro Fernández Debut Release Date Unknown Live at Rhino Records - Angry Samoans The Arrogant Worms - The Arrogant Worms Still Life with Guitar - Kevin Ayers Fat Sound - Bad Manners Red, White & Blues - The Blues Brothers (live) The Definitive Collection - The Blues Brothers (compilation) The IVth Crusade - Bolt Thrower Burning Hell - Brainbombs Bucketheadland - Buckethead Gig - Circle Jerks (live) Girl Singer - Rosemary Clooney Rite - Julian Cope Thunder Perfect Mind - Current 93 Light Speed Collision - Def Fx Nocturnal Omissions - Dreams So Real 30 Years A-Greying - The Dubliners Accelerator - The Future Sound of London Second Time Around - Ghost Patio - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci Pleasure and Pain - Ben Harper and Tom Freund Electric Tepee - Hawkwind Kirya - Ofra Haza Out of the Blue - Donnie Iris In Search of Manny - Luscious Jackson Live at the Whisky - Kansas Live at the Philharmonic - Kris Kristofferson Harmony - Londonbeat The Wayward Bus - The Magnetic Fields M.S.G. - McAuley Schenker Group Lysol - The Melvins '92 Tour EP - Motörhead Thunder Perfect Mind - Nurse with Wound Plea for Peace - Operation Ivy Phunk Junkeez - Phunk Junkeez (debut) Submit - Pitchshifter On a Wing and a Prayer - Gerry Rafferty Kampungan - Slank Tonight's the Night...Live - Steeleye Span (live) Twilight Time - Stratovarius 40 Oz. to Freedom - Sublime …Meanwhile - 10cc There and Back Again - Vertical Horizon (debut) Lik My Trakter - The Waltons Now That's What I Call Music! 21 - Various Artists Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the charts of 1992.5

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries 1 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You 1992 UK 1 - Nov 1992, US BB 1 of 1992, Holland 1 - Nov 1992, Sweden 1 - Nov 1992, Switzerland 1 - Dec 1992, Norway 1 - Dec 1992, Poland 1 - Nov 1992, Germany 1 - Jan 1993, Éire 1 - Dec 1992, Australia 1 for 10 weeks Mar 1993, Grammy in 1993, Austria 2 - Dec 1992, Australia 2 of 1993, US CashBox 5 of 1993, Japan 5 of all time (international songs), Italy 7 of 1992, Global 7 (10 M sold) - 1992, POP 10 of 1992, Europe 19 of the 1990s, TOTP 19, AFI 65, Germany 67 of the 1990s, Scrobulate 90 of ballad, RIAA 108, RYM 172 of 1992, Party 280 of 1999, Acclaimed 802 2 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit 1992 New Zealand 1 for 1 weeks Feb 1992, Sweden 2 - Jan 1992, Norway 2 - Jan 1992, Poland 2 - Jan 1992, Germany 2 - Jan 1992, Holland 3 - Nov 1991, RYM 3 of 1991, Acclaimed 3, US BB 5 of 1992, Scrobulate 5 of rock, US BB 6 of 1992, Switzerland 6 - Feb 1992, Europe 6 of the 1990s, POP 6 of 1992, UK 7 - Nov 1991, Belgium 7 of all time, 7 in 2FM list, Rolling Stone 9, France 10 - Dec 1991, Austria 11 - Feb 1992, Virgin 16, Poland 23 of all time, US CashBox 27 of 1992, Italy 29 of 1992, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1991, WXPN 53, RIAA 80, Germany 152 of the 1990s, TheQ 321, OzNet 900 3 Boyz II Men End of the Road 1992 UK 1 - Sep 1992, US BB 1 of 1992, US CashBox 1 of 1992, Holland 1 - Oct 1992, Éire 1 - Nov 1992, New Zealand 1 for 7 weeks Oct 1992, Australia 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1993, US BB 3 of 1992, Sweden 3 - Oct 1992, Norway 3 - Nov 1992, POP 3 of 1992, Poland 6 - Sep 1992, Switzerland 7 - Oct 1992, Germany 7 - Jan 1993, Australia 21 of 1992, Austria 29 - Nov 1992, Scrobulate 89 of rnb, Germany 337 of the 1990s 4 Snap! Rhythm is a Dancer 1992 UK 1 - Jul 1992, Holland 1 - Apr 1992, Austria 1 - May 1992, Switzerland 1 - Apr 1992, Italy 1 of 1992, Germany 1 - Apr 1992, Éire 1 - Aug 1992, France 3 - Apr 1992, Sweden 4 - May 1992, Norway 4 - Jun 1992, US BB 5 of 1993, Germany 6 of the 1990s, US CashBox 12 of 1993, Australia 12 of 1992, US BB 17 of 1992, POP 17 of 1993, Scrobulate 65 of 90s, RYM 96 of 1992 5 Mr Big To Be With You 1992 US BB 1 of 1992, Holland 1 - Mar 1992, Sweden 1 - Feb 1992, Switzerland 1 - Mar 1992, Norway 1 - Mar 1992, Germany 1 - Mar 1992, New Zealand 1 for 5 weeks Mar 1992, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Aug 1992, Austria 2 - Apr 1992, UK 3 - Mar 1992, Poland 5 - Jan 1992, Australia 7 of 1992, US CashBox 9 of 1992, POP 25 of 1992, Germany 47 of the 1990s, OzNet 386 Top hits on record

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"All 4 Love" - Color Me Badd "All I Want" - Toad the Wet Sprocket "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg - TLC "Atesle Barut" - Sertab Erener "Baby-Baby-Baby - TLC "Be My Baby" - Vanessa Paradis "Breakin' My Heart (Pretty Brown Eyes)" - Mint Condition "Come as You Are" - Nirvana "Connected" - Stereo MCs "Diamonds and Pearls" - Prince "Digging In The Dirt" - Peter Gabriel "Dur dur d'être bébé" - Jordy "Dixie-Narco (EP)" - Primal Scream "Drive" - R.E.M. "El Visa" - Cheb Hasni "End Of The Road" - Boyz II Men "Erotica" - Madonna "Even Better Than The Real Thing" - U2 "Even Flow" - Pearl Jam "Everytime We Touch" - Maggie Reilly "Forever Love" - Color Me Badd "Free Your Mind" - En Vogue "Friday I'm In Love" - The Cure "God Gave Rock And Roll To You II" - Kiss "Heal the World" - Michael Jackson "Heaven Sent" - INXS "House of Love" - East 17 "Human Touch" - Bruce Springsteen "I Adore Mi Amore" - Color Me Badd "I Can't Dance" - Genesis "In Bloom" - Nirvana "In the Closet" - Michael Jackson "I'll Be There" - Mariah Carey "I Palindrome I" - They Might Be Giants "It's Only Natural" - Crowded House "I Will Always Love You" - Whitney Houston "It Was a Good Day" - Ice Cube "Jam" - Michael Jackson "Jeremy" - Pearl Jam "Jesus He Knows Me" - Genesis "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" - Spin Doctors "Joy" - François Feldman "Jump" - Kris Kross "Jump Around" - House of Pain "Just Another Day" - Jon Secada "Keep the Faith" - Bon Jovi "Killing in the Name" - Rage Against the Machine "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Guns N' Roses "Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)" - Tears For Fears "Layla" - Eric Clapton "Le Chat" - Pow woW "Let's Get Rocked" - Def Leppard "Lithium" - Nirvana "Life is a Highway" - Tom Cochrane "Man on the Moon" - R.E.M. "Motorcycle Emptiness" - Manic Street Preachers "Mrs. Robinson" - Lemonheads "My Lovin' (Never Gonna Get It)" - En Vogue "No Ordinary Love" - Sade "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" - Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg "Nothing Else Matters" - Metallica "November Rain" - Guns N' Roses "One" - U2 "Passin' Me By" - The Pharcyde "Real Love" - Mary J. Blige featuring The Notorious B.I.G. "Remedy" - The Black Crowes "Remember The Time" - Michael Jackson "Runaway Train" - Soul Asylum "Save the Best for Last" - Vanessa L. Williams "Sliver" - Nirvana "Slow Motion" - Color Me Badd "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" - Patty Smyth and Don Henley "Song of Ocarina" - Jean-Philippe Audin and Diego Modena "Stay" - Shakespears Sister "Step It Up" - Stereo MCs "Supermodel (You Better Work)" - RuPaul "Sweet Lullaby" - Deep Forest "Tears in Heaven" - Eric Clapton "Green Jellÿ" - Green Jellÿ "Thinkin' Back" - Color Me Badd "This Used to Be My Playground" - Madonna "To Be With You" - Mr. Big "Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers "Walk" - Pantera "Walking on Broken Glass" - Annie Lennox "Weather With You" - Crowded House "What About Your Friends - TLC "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" - U2 "Why" - Annie Lennox "Who Is It" - Michael Jackson

See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1992

Classical music Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen - Arctic Landscape for Military Band Milton Babbitt Septet, but Equal Counterparts for brass quintet6 Leonardo Balada Symphony No. 4 Lausanne Celebracio for orchestra Mario Davidovsky - Synchronisms No. 10 for guitar and electronic sounds Lorenzo Ferrero La ruta de Cortés (symphonic poem) Movimento americano Percy Grainger - Bridal Lullaby transcribed for orchestra by John Pickard Vagn Holmboe - Svaerm for string quartet (partially arranged from earlier violin duos) Elena Kats-Chernin - Clocks Chan Ka Nin - Saxophone Quartet Andreas Kunstein String Quartet No. 1 10 Epigrams for toy piano William Mathias - Flute Concerto Krzysztof Penderecki - Symphony No. 5 Korean Alwynne Pritchard - Glimpsed Most Clearly From The Corner Of Your Eye (for seven cellos) Joan Tower - Violin Concerto Malcolm Williamson - Requiem for a Tribe Brother Iannis Xenakis - La Déesse Athéna (Oresteïa III) (1992), for baritone solo and mixed ensemble of 11 instruments Opera Antonio Braga - 1492 epopea lirica d'America Jukka Linkola - Elina Daron Hagen - Shining Brow Musical theater

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The following musicals opened in 1992.

Crazy for You - (Broadway production) Falsettoes - (Broadway production) Guys and Dolls - (Broadway revival) Jelly's Last Jam - Broadway production The Most Happy Fella - Broadway revival Musical films

The following musical films were released in 1992.

Aladdin - Animated feature film by Walt Disney Animation Studios Roja - Tamil Indian film by Mani Ratnam Soundtracks Aladdin Academy Award winner for Best Song and Best Film Score Batman Returns - score Danny Elfman The Bodyguard - Whitney Houston Boomerang - Boyz II Men, Tribe Called Quest, P.M. Dawn, Babyface Bram Stoker's Dracula Coneheads - Paul Simon, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers Cool World - David Bowie, The Cult, Ministry, Moby, Brian Eno Deep Cover - Dr. Dre & Snoop Dog Far and Away - score by John Williams Juice - Naughty by Nature, Too Short, EPMD, Cypress Hill The Last of the Mohicans Lethal Weapon 3 - Eric Clapton, Sting Malcolm X - Arrested Development (group), Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles Mambo Kings - Los Lobos, Linda Ronstadt, Tito Puente Medicine Man - score by Jerry Goldsmith Mo' Money - Color Me Badd, Public Enemy, Bell Biv DeVoe, Janet Jackson Rush - Eric Clapton Singles - Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Jimi Hendrix, Soundgarden Sister Act - Etta James, Whoopi Goldberg, C+C Music Factory South Central - Scarface, Cameo (band), Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. Toys - Tori Amos, Enya, Frankie Goes to Hollywood Wayne's World - Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath Births April 17 - H.W. Clark, revolutionary and philosopher, bassist from Numb Lock August 18 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love June 30 - Lynx and Lamb Gaede July 22 - Selena Gomez August 19 - Demi Lovato November 23 - Miley Cyrus, also known as Hannah Montana September 16 - Nick Jonas, from the Jonas brothers Deaths January 15 - Dee Murray, bassist for Elton John, 45 (cancer) January 17 - Charlie Ventura, tenor saxophonist and bandleader January 27 - Allan Jones, singer and actor January 29 - Willie Dixon, blues singer-songwriter & musician February 21 - Jane Pickens Langley of the Pickens Sisters March 4 - Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, 70 (liver cancer) March 20 - Georges Delerue, composer March 27 - Harald Sæverud, composer April 4 - Arthur Russell, cellist and disco musician, 40 (AIDS) April 20 - Johnny Shines, guitarist April 25 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer, 26 (pulmonary edema) April 27 - Olivier Messiaen, composer May 7 - Tiny Timbrell, guitarist May 17 - Lawrence Welk, accordion player and bandleader June 18 - Peter Allen, Australian songwriter, 48 (AIDS) June 20 - Sir Charles Groves, conductor July 4 - Ástor Piazzolla, tango musician and composer July 25 - Alfred Drake, US singer and actor July 26 - Mary Wells, Motown singer, 49 (laryngeal cancer) August 2 - Michel Berger, French composer and songwriter August 5 - Jeff Porcaro, drummer, Toto, 38 (heart attack) August 12 - John Cage, U.S. composer August 16 - Mark Heard, U.S. singer, 40 (heart attack) September 19 - Sir Geraint Evans, operatic baritone October 5 - Eddie Kendricks, singer, (The Temptations) 52 (lung cancer) October 25 - Roger Miller, singer, 56 (lung cancer) November 13 - Ronnie Bond, The Troggs, 52 November 14 - Teddy Riley, New Orleans jazz trumpeter and bandleader November 21 - Severino Gazzelloni, flautist November 23 - Roy Acuff, King of Country Music, Fiddle 89 November 27 - Daniel Santos, singer and composer of bolero November 29 - Paul Ryan, singer, songwriter and record producer, 44 (cancer) December 21 Philip Farkas, horn player Albert King, blues guitarist and singer Most Critically Acclaimed Songs of 1992

This information is taken from Acclaimed Music.7

1. "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" - Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg 2. "Creep" - Radiohead 3. "Tennessee" - Arrested Development 4. "Jump Around" - House of Pain 5. "Man on the Moon" - R.E.M. 6. "It Was a Good Day" Ice Cube 7. "My Lovin'" - En Vogue 8. "Killing in the Name" - Rage Against the Machine 9. "Motorcycle Emptiness" - Manic Street Preachers 10. "Everybody Hurts" - R.E.M.

The most critically acclaimed soundtrack of 1992 was A. R. Rahman's debut soundtrack for the Tamil Indian film Roja. The soundtrack was chosen by Time magazine as one of the "10 Best Soundtracks" of all time in 2005.8910

Awards Eurovision Song Contest: Main article: Eurovision Song Contest 1992 Filmfare Best Male Playback Award: Awarded to Kumar Sanu Grammy Awards: Main article: Grammy Awards of 1992 Mercury Music Prize: Awarded to Primal Scream for Screamadelica Ramon Magsaysay Award: Awarded tp Ravi Shankar Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The following artists were inducted: Bobby Blue Bland, Booker T. and the M.G.s, Johnny Cash, The Isley Brothers, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Sam & Dave, and The Yardbirds See also 1992 in British music List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1992 (U.S.) Record labels established in 1992 References ^ Olsen, Eric (9 April 2004). "10 years later, Cobain lives on in his music". MSNBC Interactive. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4652653/. Retrieved 2008-04-20. ^ unattributed (undated). "50 WAYS TO LEAVE SOUTH AFRICA". Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc.. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,309330,00.html. Retrieved 2008-04-28. ^ Darling, Spyder (November 1998). "The Sultans of Sleaze". NY Rock. http://www.nyrock.com/reviews/motleycrue.asp. Retrieved 2008-04-29. ^ anonymous (undated). "1992 Rolling Stone Covers". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/5392234/1992_rolling_stone_covers/photo/13/large/icet. Retrieved 2008-04-17. ^ Hawtin, Steve (10 February 2008). "Songs from the Year 1992". Steve Hawtin/TsorT. http://tsort.info/music/yr1992.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-17. ^ anonymous (undated). "MILTON BABBITT". Howard Stokar Management. http://www.stokar.com/GCM/Babbitt_works.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-17. ^ anonymous (undated). "The Top Songs from 1992". Acclaimed Music. http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Current/1992s.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-17. ^ Corliss, Richard (2005). "Best Soundtracks - ALL TIME 100 MOVIES - TIME". Time. http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,soundtracks,00.html. Retrieved 24 February 2008. ^ Corliss, Richard (June 2, 2005). "That Old Feeling - Secrets of the All-Time 100 - TIME". Time. http://aolsvc.timeforkids.kol.aol.com/time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,1068026-3,00.html. Retrieved 24 February 2008. ^ ""All-TIME" 100 Movies". Time. http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies. Retrieved 2009-02-25.

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